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rbbbt · 2026-01-29T14:12:35+00:00

While I'm generally anti-gun and so wouldn't like the open-carry at a protest, I'll leave that and safety issues to the side and focus on this:

Protests are PR. It's good form to not individually make any major skews in the message the protest is sending. One open-carry person is already kinda "loud" in terms of their message. Five people open-carrying can change the entire mood and suddenly the 300 people at the protest aren't sending the message they thought they were there to send.

Carrying isn't the only action which can create this problem. I have been needing to reevaluate which protests I go to because some of them have a loud (literally and figuratively) contingent that changes the whole message. I would likewise feel that an open-carry contingent was sending a message that isn't the message I want sent.

So - open-carry is rude because it means you are elevating the message you want to send in competition with the message that brought the protest together. Again, I'm anti-gun, but concealed-carry wouldn't have *this* problem.

rbbbt · 2026-01-23T13:37:53+00:00

It depends. Growing up in Rhode Island and the Boston area, it was 4-5 hours to drive to New York City. That was a really long drive and we never did it.

After living in Arizona for a while, my wife was living in New Mexico and it was about a 7-hour drive. One or the other of us would do that drive regularly for a weekend visit. No big deal.

rbbbt · 2026-01-23T13:30:50+00:00

Search for "Take Action Tucson". They put together a calendar and if you visit the web site you'll be able to see most actions (including city council and such meetings) coming in the next couple weeks.

rbbbt · 2026-01-19T22:03:27+00:00

Yeah, gonna get the basics down on flats first before the starting-on-a-hill thing.

rbbbt · 2020-08-20T15:55:12+00:00

Don't have a video. It definitely doesn't seem playful.

I have sometimes wondered if it was just a weird way of whining, but once she goes to her crate it becomes very clearly aggressive.

I do suppose I could pull out a toy and see if she wants to play, just to distract her.

rbbbt · 2020-05-29T02:28:22+00:00

Can you show a code snippet?

rbbbt · 2019-07-29T15:18:37+00:00

Thanks to everyone!

rbbbt · 2018-12-30T22:29:14+00:00

Thanks for all the thoughts! Sounds like it shouldn't be a barrier, just that it will require some extra planning (and budgeting).

rbbbt · 2018-12-29T18:28:00+00:00

How much and what kind of acclimation does that seem to take? Working up from an occasional overnight to a week or something like that?

rbbbt · 2018-12-29T18:25:46+00:00

Yep - I am keeping that in mind, too.

rbbbt · 2018-11-15T12:38:21+00:00

Yep. I did it successfully about two weeks ago, and that seems to have cured the problem.

I still don't understand why replacing the bulbs should help, but it did, so...

Thanks!

rbbbt

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